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June 10, 2008
Cisco Announces Physical Security Solution for the Integrated Services Router
By Anshu Shrivastava, TMCnet Contributing Editor
Cisco (News - Alert) today announced a video surveillance solution that’s enabled by its so-called “Integrated Services Router” (ISR) platform.
By incorporating video surveillance network modules into the Cisco ISR, company officials say, the solution converges physical security over an IP
network. Cisco’s officials said that this solution also works with non-IP video surveillance equipment to enable a migration to IP-enabled video surveillance.
network. Cisco’s officials said that this solution also works with non-IP video surveillance equipment to enable a migration to IP-enabled video surveillance. Officials said that the Cisco Video Surveillance solution is one of a number of services that run on the Cisco ISR, which is designed to provider tighter linkage between video surveillance and other branch applications such as unified communications, network security, virtual private networks and mobility.
With an all-in-one Cisco ISR platform, the Cisco Video Surveillance solution, officials say, provides integrated management from a central site or distributed management from many sites to collect, monitor and view both live and recorded video.
Cisco Video Surveillance on the Cisco ISR also provides customers with a single-box embedded storage option as well as third-party video storage and archival capabilities, according to the company.
Officials said that customers can use both traditional analog video cameras and wired or wireless IP video surveillance cameras.
The new modules for the Cisco 2800 and 3800 Series Integrated Services Routers, which feature the Cisco Video Surveillance Media Manager line of products, include Cisco Video Management and Storage System (VMSS) Network Module, which helps enable local archival and management of video images.
And also, Cisco’s IP Video Surveillance 16-Port Analog Video Gateway (News - Alert) Network Module provides analog video encoding of up to 30 frames per second, per port at up to 4CIF video resolution, support for Motion JPEG (MJPEG) and MPEG4, remote Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) camera control, integrated contact closure ports, and embedded motion detection, company officials say.
Cisco Video Surveillance is available on the Cisco 3200 Series Rugged Integrated Services Router, also featuring the Cisco Video Surveillance Media Manager line of products, according to the company
ADT, a company providing security systems integrator, will team with Cisco to offer the new solution.
“This will allow us to offer our customers the latest in physical security systems and services, taking advantage of existing systems,” said Nick Samanich, director for commercial strategic products planning at ADT.
Samanich said the solution enhances ADT’s ability to provide end-users with effective video surveillance on their existing networks, giving them greater control and flexibility and an increased level of security.
Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anshu’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
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